Vaccinated Workers Are Getting Benefits That Those Without Covid Shots Won’t

If you’ve got a green pass on your wrist showing you’ve been vaccinated, the office is your oyster at Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.


You can get treatments at the hair salon on the second floor, use the on-site gym and access game rooms with Playstations, billiards and ping pong tables, among other perks.

If you don’t have proof of either vaccination or recent recovery from Covid-19, however, work is a little more bleak. No using the facilities. Eat only at your desk, instead of with your co-workers. By April, you will have to show a negative Covid test before being allowed into the building.


“We’re not shaming anyone. We’re not pointing fingers. We are just saying, ‘This will be our policy,’” company spokesman Gil Messing said. “If you get the vaccination, you get benefits that others do not.”

As the country with the highest vaccination penetration rate on the globe, Israeli businesses are the first to grapple with thorny issues about those who decide to refuse vaccines. There’s increasing talk of similar practices around the world as people in more nations get vaccinated.

The questions aren’t just about who gets to travel or sit in a movie theater. Businesses are considering whether to require employees to get vaccinated to continue working. In New York, a waitress was already fired by her restaurant after refusing to immediately take the vaccine.

In Israel, business are being assisted by a system being rolled out by the government that allows access to gyms, theaters and restaurants for vaccinated people or those recently recovering from the virus. Other countries are considering similar measures that would create a two-tiered social structure, blocking unvaccinated people from some everyday activities in an attempt to both get life back to normal and encourage people to get the vaccine.

U.S. President Joe Biden in January ordered members of his cabinet to assess the feasibility of creating an electronic vaccine certificate. New York is starting to test a system at sports venues like Madison Square Garden and the Barclays Center. In the U.K., Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is reviewing the use of a domestic vaccination pass, though conclusions aren’t expected until June.

Discussions are far less advanced in places like Australia and Hong Kong where the virus is well under control and activities like eating out are already possible — albeit with a mandatory QR code sign in. For China and much of Asia, the main focus is whether vaccine passports might be able to jump start international travel.



Proof of vaccination has been a cross-border requirement in some form for years, notably for yellow fever. What is unusual is the idea of restricting everyday activities at home or at work depending on your vaccination status.

Right now, Check Point’s policy applies just to its 2,400 employees in Israel, but it may become a template for its locations in 60 other countries worldwide, Messing said. The company estimates that less than 10% of its Israeli employees aren’t vaccinated, and they’ve only heard complaints about their policies from about three or four people, he said.

Oshi Nidam, 39, a purchasing manager at Check Point, says he feels more confident seeing people with the green bracelets while sitting in meetings or walking down the hallway. “You feel you are more safe, you feel that your health is not in danger,” he said. “I don’t know everyone personally at Check Point, but I didn’t hear of anyone who has had a negative feeling about it.”

In the U.S., most of Check Point’s employees aren’t even eligible yet for the vaccine, Messing said.

Engel has seen some resentment from people who are cut out of some activities. But he also thinks the pressure will prompt more people to get the shot.

“It may push people to get the vaccine, even people who are against it, just because we’re continuing on with our life and they’re not able to,” he said. “It’s going to become a regular, normal part of life — for now.”

If you’ve got a green pass on your wrist showing you’ve been vaccinated, the office is your oyster at Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.

Every time someone gets COVID...

If an individual decides to risk death or serious illness by not being vaccinated its their prerogative.
Its also an individuals prerogative not to risk the same by mixing with those people.

I don't think that will fly in the US, at least not after people sue for equal protection violations.

People with the vaccine can still get sick, and the shots are not even fully effective until two to three weeks afterwards. At least the article said that the long-term viability is still unknown. So the vaccine isn't about a cure, but about social control?

Also, they claim no punishment, but that is exactly what is happening to the unvaccinated.

Using a cyber security company as an example makes me think that other businesses are not playing along. They picked the one compliant example and made it seem like the norm when in fact it is not. (yet?)

Then they haven't shown any examples of companies being rebellious to vaccine mandates.

This is just propaganda used to push a pro-vaccine narrative.

Me thinks this is an example of things to come globally. Why not use the covid as a reason to have governments around the world get their people to comply with measures such as in the article on a larger scale, with the benefits being much greater? Those who vaccinate get to go to stores, public events/venues, eat out, ride public transit, etc....while those who do not, get left out.

We have known for years about the coming One World Government, false prophet, beast and mark of the beast. What better way to usher all that in by seeing how far people can be pushed, and just how much government can control the masses? Tell them they must do this and that, or else.....

It's coming, and this is a prime measure to gauge things.

Who would have thought that Israel would become Fascist after the Holocaust wiped out millions?

This is funny. Apparently someone thinks that the same people that think the vaccine is a good idea would also think that eating donuts every day is a good idea. Does the vax protect from diabetes too?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/krispy-kreme-free-doughnut-every-day-2021-covid-19-vaccination-card/